Ethel Bakken

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December 08, 2010

Aberdeen: The funeral service for Ethel Bakken, 86, Aberdeen, will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, with Pastor Hyle Anderson officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Ethel died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, at Bethesda Home of Aberdeen.

Visitation will be 1-7 p.m. Thursday, with family present from 5-7 p.m. at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., Aberdeen.

Ethel Weismantel was born July 5, 1924, to William and Ida (Schliebe) Weismantel in Columbia, S.D. This is the area where she grew up and attended school.

Ethel married Conrad Connie Bakken on Oct. 18, 1946, in Columbia. She worked as a school secretary in Barnard and Frederick and was also employed at Northern State College's Williams Library. In 1986, she was named Outstanding Staff Member for that year.

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Ethel loved playing cards, working on puzzles, reading and watching Twins baseball. She also enjoyed going dancing with Connie. Ethel had a heart for children and loved gatherings and laughing with her family. She had a kind heart, never saying a negative word of others. Ethel was very faithful to her church.